08/01/1969 – New York: Designer Yves St. Laurent’s fall-winter fashion show makes official the mid-calf length skirts.
08/01/1969 – First Lt. Donald Pepler, 22, son of Mrs. Zelma Pepler, 923-4th Ave, Ford City, and the late William Pepler, has been wounded in Vietnam and is in a Tokyo hospital awaiting surgery. Pepler called his mother Wednesday and told her that while an aerial observer on a helicopter a week ago, he was shot down. This is the second time Pepler has been wounded in Vietnam. The last time he was hit with shrapnel. He has been in Vietnam since November.
08/01/1969 – Ford Cliff firemen expect one of the biggest turnouts for the parade of firemen they have planned tonight. Parade chairman Earl Kline, Jr. said 443 units have indicated they will be represented.
08/01/1969 – A space ship hovered near J. Mitchell Blose on his rural Yatesboro farm, but he was unable to coax the creatures in the ship out for a talk. “I’d like to go to Mars,” he said. Blose is head of Kittanning High School mathematics department. Since July 1965, Blose and his sister, Miss Melzena Blose, a Brookville teacher, have seen what they believe are a number of UFOs in the area of their farm. Blose became advisor of a UFO Club three years ago at the high school. Last year, the membership of 80 students became cumbersome, so only 20 students were invited to join this year.
08/01/1969 – Ralph Peoples, 64, owner-operator of Peoples Radio Service, 117 S. Jefferson St., yesterday closed for the last time, the shop he opened there in 1945.
08/01/1969 – The Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association has voted to ask the state to make front and rear reflectorized license plates standard for all vehicles in the state. At present, only rear plates are required on cars.
08/01/1969 - Amy Lendyak, 11, of Wattersonville, today was reported in satisfactory condition in the hospital where she is being treated for head and leg injuries suffered when she wrecked her bicycle today. Hospital authorities said another teen, Floyd Bowser, 17, of Kittanning RD7, was treated for abrasions of the knees when his motorcycle upset.
08/01/1964 – William W. Mountain, division manager for West Penn Power Company at Kittanning has been named assistant to the vice president- division operations for the utility, and will continue to be headquartered at Kittanning in the new post.
08/01/1959 – Kittanning Firemen’s Band, holder of a long list of competitive victories, will observe its tenth anniversary tomorrow.
08/01/1959 – Advocates of cooperative giving and collecting cleared the decks here for the first United Fund appeal in Middle Armstrong County. Walter F. Rittenhouse, Kittanning architect, will be chairman for the first campaign.
08/01/1949 – Thundershowers which brought cool breezes to Kittanning over the weekend inflicted minor damage to a McKean Street home where a lightning bolt tore bricks from a chimney.
08/01/1949 – Camp Ends When Boy Takes Ill. Boy Scout Camp BuCoCo Closed Prematurely After 16-year-old Takes Typhoid.
08/01/1944 – Two Pennsylvania State Policemen left Kittanning substation to take up duties elsewhere. Pfc. J. Lyle Young was transferred to Hershey and Pvt. Nick Saginaw to Punxsutawney. Pvts. Joseph Platt and Dennis Greenawalt were expected to arrive some time this week to fill the vacancies.
08/01/1939 – The Rev. Walter Kennedy of Templeton, who is credited by friends with having married half the county and buried the other half preached his 4,452nd sermon at Goheenville Presbyterian Church as he completed 30 years to the ministry.
08/01/1934 – Kittanning Chapter of the American Red Cross held its annual election of officers for the coming 12 months at a meeting in the courthouse annex here. Officers who will serve for next year are Mrs. Samuel Bedson, chairman; Mrs. D. J. Haney, vice chairman; Mrs. H. P. Boarts, secretary, and Mrs. J. A. Picard, treasurer.
08/01/1929 – The home of Mr. and Mrs. John Bohann on the George Blystone farm near Rural Valley was destroyed by fire. Mr. Bohann was burned about the face and hands.
08/01/1929 – The Lawson property in East Kittanning will be taken over soon by the State Highways Department, as a site for permanent maintenance buildings.